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On the Unity of Confucian and Zen Wisdom
Zenkai Ichiran (A Wave Across the Sea of Zen)
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Confucius said: 'Investigate things, extend knowledge, make the will sincere, rectify the heart.' This is nothing other than Zen. When you investigate a thing thoroughly, you reach the place where subject and object fall away. That is kenshō. The sages of China and the patriarchs of India all drank from the same stream. Only the words differ; the water is one.
Attribution
By Kosen Imakita
From Zenkai Ichiran (A Wave Across the Sea of Zen)
Sources
Zenkai Ichiran (A Wave Across the Sea of Zen): On the Unity of Confucian and Zen Wisdom